Covid-19 pandemic 'far from over': WHO lists factors for increase in cases globally
Zee News
"We are definitely in the middle of the pandemic," a WHO spokesperson said.
New Delhi: The World Health Organization (WHO) on Friday (March 18, 2022) said that the end of the Covid-19 pandemic was a long way off, citing a rise in cases in its latest weekly data.
Asked by a journalist at a Geneva media briefing about the timing of the pandemic's end, Margaret Harris, a WHO spokesperson, said it was "far from over".
"We are definitely in the middle of the pandemic," she added.
After more than a month of decline, coronavirus cases have started to increase around the world last week, the WHO said, with lockdowns in Asia and China's Jilin province battling to contain an outbreak.
The WHO said that a combination of factors was causing the increases, including the highly transmissible Omicron variant and its cousin the BA.2 sub-variant. It also stated that the lifting of public health and social measures is also behind the latest surge in Covid-19 cases.
